Trade of Artificially Cultivated Yartza is Akin to Hanging a Goat’s Head and Selling Dog-Meat Instead

1 year ago

Reported By Kelsang Jinpa Translated By TenGyal

Artificially Cultivated Yartza Being Sold by The Chinese

Currently, as sales of artificially cultivated Yartza Gunbu continue to increase in Tibet, the local Tibetans’ livelihood and share of the fungus market face great loss and destruction.

Every year from around the end of April to June, for over a month, it is the Yartza Gunbu harvest season in Tibet. Yartza gunbu (caterpillar fungus, cordyceps sinen...

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